LIVE ON AIR:California Classical All Night with Jeffrey Freymann

KDFC's The State of the Arts

The Bay Area has some of the world’s best-known performing arts organizations and cultural offerings. Each day, Jeffrey Freymann showcases activities, concerts, soloists and ensembles coming through the area.

January 12, 2017

The KDFC Classical All-Stars Countdown will begin next Tuesday morning – and with an ominous roiling of hooves and violin trills (not to mention the smell of napalm and victory). Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries is likely to make the list. There’s plenty of staying power in the work, which has seared itself into our popular culture.